Loss of the Titanic.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 459, 24 April 1912, Page 5

Loss of the Titanic.

INQUIRY BY SENATE,

QUESTIONS TO ANSWER

PASSENGERS THOUGHT VESSEL

UNSINKABLE.

EARLIER BOATS ONLY HALF FILLED.

liy Telegraph.—l'reHs Association.-- -Copyrißtit Received April 24, 8.20 a.m. London, Tuesday. The Daily News' New York correspondent, states the S-.-ikit ■' intends inquiring as to whotbir the Tiinnie's ofiieers disregarded repeated warnings

coneernin;: ; whether it- was unavoidable that a hundred women perished; why the White Star Company was i;rnoraiit of the disaster tint il evening, thouph the Ibiitieand

C>lympie knew (he details at. noon; whv th.e Marconi e.h'a'ia! wirelessed

the operators en. the ('arpathia on Thursday to say nothinp; and "hold

your story tor dollars in ("our figures."

The correspondent adds there is .nine tall; of the chilis boycotting the

men who left the ship while women were ahoard, but it is diflicult to criticise the men when boat after boat was lowered partly filled. Nino out of ten passengers for an hour and a-half believed the Titanic to he unsinkable and deliberately refused to enter the earlier boats. A steward named Nichols, states that ha\,f the men went back to bed. Three-quarters of an hour after the collision he saw a passenger punching a ball in the gymnasium. Women had to be coaxed to enter the boats.

Peter Daly, a first-saloon pa?senger, states that the captain rati to (he railing calling to bring the boats back aB they were only half filled.